Linux-Setup Digest #497, Volume #19 Mon, 28 Aug 00 09:13:09 EDT
Contents:
Re: SCSI CDRW Locks up Redhat 6.1 ("Harris L. Gilliam")
printer problem lp* off-line ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Wierd Error on Install. (Anaconda?) ("Tony Neville")
Re: newbie cant set up corel os (Eric)
Re: LILO and floppy ("Tony Neville")
Linux Mail Server ("Jason Ng")
Re: Firewall for Linux (Simon Brooke)
Re: Linux Mail Server (Richard Watson)
2 Ethernet cards, system won't boot (David M. Siegel)
Re: Linux Mail Server (John Winters)
Re: Firewall for Linux (Tim Haynes)
Low volume wit ESS Solo 1 (Cavallo)
Re: kernel panic: init not found ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux Mail Server ("Boris Pran")
CDRW drive ("Ralph & Wendie")
Re: Linux Mail Server (Phil)
3com 3c509 in ISA mode in windows (Dave Jepson)
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From: "Harris L. Gilliam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: SCSI CDRW Locks up Redhat 6.1
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 03:29:17 -0400
Harris L. Gilliam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> bernieo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I just purchased a Yamaha 8x8x24 SCSI CD Recorder.
>> This replaces an IDE CD Recorder which I could not get to work under
>> Linux.
> I'm having similar problems with the INITIO Ultra SCSI card and a
> Yamaha 6x4x16 CDRW. I'm pretty sure what happens is that the Yamaha
> gets confuzzled when the termination isn't just right and then does
> some sort of SCSI bus reset that crashes the machine.
> In my config I have the Yamaha and an AIWA 4mm DAT connected at the
> same time. The DAT is external. Someone mentioned in another thread
> that sometimes the SCSI card doesn't have enough juice to power the
> internal and external terminators. So my next attempt is to enable
> the terminator power on the DAT and see if things improve. You might
> want to try something similar.
> This is either a bug in the Yamaha firmware or the INITIO device
> driver, I can't tell which yet.
Okay so... I hooked up my DAT to the internal SCSI chain with the
Yamaha at the end. The DAT is not terminated, the Yamaha is, and
everything works fine :-) So I suspect the INITIO card can't power the
terminator when the DAT is hooked up externally. I haven't tried
enabling the DAT's terminator power and connecting it externally again
but I bet that will work too.
---Harris
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: printer problem lp* off-line
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 08:17:27 GMT
No matter what I do, (cat file > /dev/lp0) I get
the message '... kernel: lp0 off-line' in
/var/log/messages.
I have Suse6.3 (Linux 2.2.13) installed. Lsmod
reports that the modules lp, parport, parport_pc
are inserted. In /var/log/messages the parport
seems to be OK (io=0x378,irq=7). Everything I
found for /etc/modules.conf (aliases and so on) is
inserted.
Tried it with different IRQs and io-Bases. Tried
every option on the printer (which is a Kyocera
FS1200 which printed several weeks ago without
complaining!!!)
When I start Windows printing works!
Help! (I compiled the Kernel 3-times last 5
Hours!)
Antworten in Deutsch auch SEHR willkommen
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Before you buy.
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From: "Tony Neville" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Wierd Error on Install. (Anaconda?)
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 20:38:20 +1200
Yes... Infuriatingly cryptic, isn't it?
The first seven lines of the exception are identical to the one I
received during a harddrive installation some time ago. The
cause was a corrupt RPM. My HD had become inflicted with
newly hatched bad blocks.
"Adam H." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to install Redhat 6.2 onto a new (2nd hand) computer
> I have at home, the same way I have with many other installations.
> This is the first time I've encountered an error of this nature, and I
> don't understand what it is. Can someone please help me:
>
> After the selection criteria, Redhat starts to install it's packages, but
> when it finishes installing the packages, I get an error message:
>
> =====================================
> Exception Occurred:
> Traceback (innermost last):
> File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 342 in ?
> intf.run(todo, test = test)
> File "/usr/lib/anaconda/text.py", line 1165, in run
> rc = apply (step[1](), step[2])
> File "usr/lib/anaconda/text.py", line 702, in __call__
> If todo.doinstall ():
> File "/usr/lib/anaconda/tody.py", line 1252 in do Install
> self.WriteConfiguration ()
> =====================================
>
> I'm trying to install this on a P 166, 2gig Hdd, 16Mb Ram.
> (I've tried installing with and without the GUI, but I still get
> the same error).
>
> Thanks for ANY help...
>
> Adam
>
>
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: newbie cant set up corel os
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 10:45:08 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ed wrote:
>
> hello group
> have tray,t cuple times to setup corel os bad evary time qwick instal
> stops on 97% {have gaht 3 new cdroms that cant be theproblem ?} have
> trun off all in the back grounde runging programs off have tray to
> copy in dos bad than i doint geht all the filles i need i have
> now down load a tool that cant copy file direct off cd rom
> can copy now base boot ? help
I'll try answering in dutch, since english appearantly isn't your native
language :-)
Hallo Ed,
Als ik het goed begrijp probeer je een zogenaamde "partition-less
install"
te doen? Dus vanuit Windows Linux installeren zonder je schijf opnieuw
te partitioneren (waar komen anders die achtergrond processen vandaan?).
Dit heb ik nog nooit gedaan, dus ik kan je geen gegrond advies geven,
maar ik zou proberen om CorelLinux op zijn eigen partitie te
installeren. Daarvoor heb je een nieuwe vrije partitie nodig. Als je die
niet hebt, moet je eerst Windows defragmenteren, (Met het virtueel
geheugen(swap) uitgeschakeld), en dan mbv. FIPS.EXE (staat
waarschijnlijk wel op de CD) of PartitionMagic(Ik geloof dat Corel dat
meelevert in hun distributie) een nieuwe partitie maken. Daarna moet je
de PC rebooten, met de CDROM in de speler. Je kunt dan CorelLinux
installeren in zijn eigen partitie. (Ik weet niet hoe groot je harddisk
is, maar zorg dat je de windows partitie klein genoeg houdt, zodat linux
nog ge'boot kan worden (windows partitie < 8 GB)
Eric
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From: "Tony Neville" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LILO and floppy
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 21:10:31 +1200
"Terramex" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:ipgq5.146240$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
> can I put my LILO on a normal floppy ?
Yes.
> If yes, how can I do this ?
Stick a diskette in the drive and enter "lilo -b /dev/fd0 -C <lilo.conf>"
where <lilo.conf> is the pathname of the lilo.conf file. Without the
"-C <lilo.conf>" parameter, the lilo command looks for lilo.conf in the
/etc directory.
> Any1 can help me , please. the reason is that Lilo destry always
> my hard disk MBR.
In what way?
> I tried many times, and it's over 1 year that after 2 or 3 months that I
> have Lilo, sometimes I have a mbr crash. Maybe it's just the hard disk, but
> now I 'd like to have just lilo on a floppy and not on the mbr, nothing
> really nothing else.
Tony.
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From: "Jason Ng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Linux Mail Server
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 18:30:44 +0800
Hi,
What's the best mail server for Linux? I would like to support a large
population... above 500, 000. Any comments?
Regards,
Jason
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Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Firewall for Linux
From: Simon Brooke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 10:31:52 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim Haynes) writes:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Donald K Knepshield) writes:
>
> []
> > PMFirewall is another one that works well. www.pmfirewall.com/PMFirewall
> > interested.
>
> I once saw the results of running it. I wasn't all that impressed[i].
>
> What's wrong with ipchains either in a script of your own design - you
> know, you, keyboard, vim or (X)emacs, DIY - or something concocted in
> e.g. gfcc?
If it's useful, my firewall script is here:
<URL:http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/bookshelf/papers/instant-firewall/instant-firewall.html>
It's quite simple, but it's mentioned in despatches^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H
the firewall FAQ, so it can't be all bad.
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/
;; Woz: 'All the best people in life seem to like LINUX.'
;; <URL:http://www.woz.org/woz/cresponses/response03.html>
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From: Richard Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Linux Mail Server
Date: 28 Aug 2000 12:39:40 +0100
"Jason Ng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> What's the best mail server for Linux? I would like to support a large
> population... above 500, 000. Any comments?
Considering the amount of cross-posting you're guaranteed a war
here. It's all a matter of opinion. If you fancy a change in lifestyle
try sendmail. If you want it quick and easy try exim or one of the
others (qmail, postfix, smail).
If you want a lot of reading do a search on deja and see what's
already been written a thousand times.
--
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From: David M. Siegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: 2 Ethernet cards, system won't boot
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 10:45:10 GMT
I've just gotten a new development system, with 2 ethernet cards, so
that it can also be used as a firewall.
The system works fine with one ethernet card. With two cards,
though, the system won't start; it seems to shift the address
of my ide drives, and consequently it can't find the kernel.
Here's the configuration:
Linux Mandrake 7.1
Asus P2B motherboard
2 750 MHz PIIIs
512 Meg RAM
2 Maxtor 40 Gig hard drives
Promise Ultra/66 controller (both drives are connected
to the Ultra/66 controller; that's what pushed me to Mandrake,
which contains a kernel with Ultra/66 support)
Soundblaster Live Value
Elsa Erazor TNT2
2 3com 3c905c PCI ethernet cards
and the usual floppy, keyboard, etc.
Because of the ultra/66, my two drives are hde and hdg.
If I put in the second ethernet card, the system claims to find
partitions at hdi and hdk. The numbers and sizes of these partitions
match the ones that should be at hde and hdg. Of course, since
it's looking for hde and hdg, the boot fails claiming that it can't
mount the filesystem.
Once I went ahead and reinstalled the OS. When I did that,
the 3c509 module wouldn't load, claiming that the device or resource
was busy. I looked at the information in /proc/interrupts and
/proc/pci and could see no conflict. According to the bios, it's
assigning the second card to IRQ 5; I see nothing else that wants
IRQ 5. Since that time, I reinstalled again with one ethernet card;
I don't have copies of the /proc listings.
I might, I suppose have conflicts with i/o ports and/or device memory.
I'd appreciate suggestions for detecting and fixing these problems.
If I install the second ethernet card, as I mentioned above, the boot
fails, claiming that it can't mount the first filesystem.
If I then use the Mandrake 7.1 boot CD as a rescue image, it allows me
to mount the partitions on hde!
Deeply confused,
-dms
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Winters)
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Linux Mail Server
Date: 28 Aug 2000 11:42:21 +0100
In article <8odeu9$k8d$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jason Ng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>What's the best mail server for Linux? I would like to support a large
>population... above 500, 000. Any comments?
You are looking at clusters and server farms and the like. Take a look
at the Oxford University mail server project -
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~mbeattie/wing
HTH
John
--
John Winters. Wallingford, Oxon, England.
The Linux Emporium - the source for Linux CDs in the UK
See http://www.linuxemporium.co.uk/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim Haynes)
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Firewall for Linux
Date: 28 Aug 2000 12:05:04 +0100
Simon Brooke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[]
> > What's wrong with ipchains either in a script of your own design - you
> > know, you, keyboard, vim or (X)emacs, DIY - or something concocted in
> > e.g. gfcc?
>
> If it's useful, my firewall script is here:
>
><URL:http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/bookshelf/papers/instant-firewall/instant-firewall.html>
It's interesting - a good example of generalisation although I'd have to
think a little about non-3-way firewalling with it.
Two things: I use input policy = DENY, it seems to ACCEPT it. With DENY,
you have to know about everything you want to accept, with ACCEPT you have
the advantage that you can do ipchains -F remotely and not block yourself
out by accident (hic!); we make of these what we may, anyway.
The other thing that struck me on a quick scan-through was this comment:
| # Spoof protection: if a packet arrives at one interface claiming to
| # come from another network, it's lying. Stop it, and log the attempt.
I didn't see any special treatment of `hostname`-on-loopback cases here -
see the vague discussion with John a month or so back. OTOH I didn't look
particularly carefully, and it might not claim to deal with that case
anyway.
I'll give it a blast for one or two networks and check the results in a bit
:8]
~Tim
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From: Cavallo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Low volume wit ESS Solo 1
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 13:31:45 +0000
Hi,
I just installed sound on my TI TravelMate 513TE, RH 6.1, kernel 2.2.12.
I used sndcnfig, and it worked properly.
However, the volume of the demo it played was really low...
I played a CD from KDE, but it is the same. All the "knobs" I can use to
control the voulme are at their maximum, but I still can hardly listen
to the music.
With w98, I have to keep the level at 30%, to not break my ears.
So, I think HW is OK.
Do you have any solution ?
Thanx in advance
gg
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: kernel panic: init not found
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 11:52:57 GMT
Hi,
I found the error.
Instead of copying just the image of the compressed root-fs on a floppy
disk i copyied the compressed fs on a floppy with existing fs.
Sorry to have bothered you
Snoh
In article <8o93pl$4jj$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> my problem is the following:
>
> I made a 2 disk boot/root on my system:
>
> Mitac Laptop 6120
> Pentium III 650
> 128 SDRAM
> REDHAT 6.1 :-) YEAH STILL
> Kernel 2.2.16-3 , zImage
>
> I did as described in the Bootdisk-Howto.
> But when booting, after loading the root-filesystem int the ram i got
> the message:
>
> kernel-panic: init not found (try kernel parameter: init=..)
>
> but i have the file init in /sbin/init. I tried also in etc and bin.
>
> if i include a link linuxrc pointing to init
> i got the error: kmod: error invoking modprobe ......err=8
>
> so it seems HE (the kernel) cannot access the root-fs.
> But he can start linuxrc?!?!?!?!
>
> What could be wrong?
>
> Iam graceful for every kind of help............
>
> p.s. this error was already posted in another group, but unfortunately
> not answered.
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
>
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Before you buy.
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From: "Boris Pran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Linux Mail Server
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 14:03:53 +0200
If you take commercial software under consideration then CommuniGate Pro
from Stalker could be a good choice.
Take a look http://www.stalker.com
Boris
Jason Ng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8odeu9$k8d$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
>
> What's the best mail server for Linux? I would like to support a large
> population... above 500, 000. Any comments?
>
> Regards,
> Jason
>
>
>
>
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From: "Ralph & Wendie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CDRW drive
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 20:02:46 +0800
I have just installed a CD writer to my system as a slave to the 2nd IDE
drive. I already have a CD rom drive slaved to the first IDE drive. How do I
get Linux (RH6.2) to recognize it. I think kudzu already did but how can I
mount and use the drive?
TIA
Ralph Dunn
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phil)
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Linux Mail Server
Date: 28 Aug 2000 13:28:40 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
John Winters -[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]- spewed forth the following rubbish:
>In article <8odeu9$k8d$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>Jason Ng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Hi,
>>
>>What's the best mail server for Linux? I would like to support a large
>>population... above 500, 000. Any comments?
>
>You are looking at clusters and server farms and the like. Take a look
>at the Oxford University mail server project -
>
>http://users.ox.ac.uk/~mbeattie/wing
Not necessarily, I've heard of a guy over in the Netherlands running postfix
(ok it's FreeBSD so I'm cheating a small bit) on a standalone box with 500,000
users.
Phil.
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From: Dave Jepson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: 3com 3c509 in ISA mode in windows
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 14:07:40 +0000
Hi,
Hope this is not too OT but there's probably more chance of someone here
knowing the answer!
To get my etherlink III 3c509B Combo working in linux I disabled the PnP
and manually set the IRQ and I/O with the 3c5x9cfg.exe program in
windows.
This works fine in linux, using isapnptools.
However I just can't get it to work in Windows.
If I use the ISA mode driver, I am allowed to specify I/O port only and
no IRQ.
If I use the EISA mode driver Control Panel->System->Device
Manager->Network Adaptors->Properties says that the driver could not be
loaded, and hence I don't get to specify IRQ & IO at all.
Has anyone had/resolved this problem before?
I went to the 3com site but the blurb on the driver download page states
that 3c509 is only supported in 'classic' (???) and PnP modes, not ISA
and EISA.
Alternatively............
Seeing as windows can see the NIC in PnP mode fine, can I get linux to
load it?
Currently if I set the card in PnP mode, linux hangs when I try to start
the eth0 interface.
The card is being loaded in /etc/conf.modules with
alias eth0 3c509
Does anyone know why it hangs and whatI could do about it?
Kind regards,
Dave
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